Shout Out! 2008

Shout Out! is an award for young campaigners aged between 15-18, campaigning alone or in a group of up to 5 people. This is for young people living in London who are campaigning or thinking about starting a campaign about something which matters to them, whether it be gun and knife crime, recycling in schools or bullying. We want to empower young people to make a difference.

Sponsored by The City Bridge Trust

Winner

Charlie Young

Queens Park Community School

Charlie is campaigning to make his school and the local community a greener place. His aim is to cut the school's emissions by 30 per cent in the next five years. The campaign has been working to raise awareness through articles in the school magazine and through holding assemblies to inform people about global warming and how to make change happen. Charlie hopes the campaign will urge his school and community to cut down on energy use and introduce more methods of recycling. His long term aim is to encourage schools across Britain to teach pupils about climate change so that the issue is taken seriously.

Finalists

Libby Rees

Rewrite the Future and Save the Children

Libby is a youth ambassador for Save the Children and published a self help book for children when she was 9 years old. At a young age, she wanted to share her methods for coping with personal difficulties with other children. She continuously works to get children's voices heard. Libby is currently knitting hats to prevent babies from getting pneumonia in the developing world. She is taking her knitting to the House of Commons to urge MP's to join her. Her greatest wish is to bring about change in countries where children are deprived of education.

Azhir Mahmood, Valerie Okoampah , Luke Pearce, Raymond Tsang

Gladesmore Community School

Gladesmore Community School is involved in Value Life- a campaign to raise awareness of gun crime in Tottenham, which they aim to develop into a national project. The campaign began in 2004 and since then has organised peace marches and rallies as well as making a documentary DVD on the issue of guns. The young campaigners have developed a website called Value Life as a way of reaching out to young people. They are keen to further develop their website to make more people aware of the dangers of gun crime.